Genealogy: Elizabeth Howard (1417-1483)

darth-cryptic (58)in #genealogy • last month

I'm experimenting with posting some random bits of my genealogy research here with the goal of eventually creating a linked family tree on Hive. You can see the index here.

Elizabeth Howard was born around 1417. Like most people that you can find that far back, she has a relationship to royalty. Other than her parents and birth and death dates, I haven't found any other info as of yet. Whenever I pick a person from my family tree out at random to post here I always go back and see what new or additional info I can find. While I verified the info I have (via FamilySearch) there was no real additional info or even a source to indicate where these dates came from.

According to Gramps, Elizabeth is my eighteenth great grandaunt. There are also a couple of other more distant relationships.

I use GenoPro (commercial software) to maintain my family tree because I like the "Genogram" user interface. However, I mainly use Gramps to generate reports which is what most of the info below is based on. GenoPro generates reports too, I just don't like the formatting as much. While GenoPro is commercial software, Gramps is open source software that is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS. I also use its relationship calculator functionality as noted above. I've also been exploring The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG) which is web based and requires a web server, PHP and mySQL database. In addition, I also have GedSite which also generates static HTML reports.

Both TNG and GedSite are commercial software so you have to pay for them. I think their price is reasonable and they are both excellent in their own ways. However, I prefer the open source nature of Gramps and the fact that it generates static HTML makes it easier to work with. I still like TNG enough that I will probably keep using it as well. I've been playing with GedSite on and off but haven't committed to it yet, however I've liked other sites I've seen generated with it. For now I am generating reports with Gramps and updating TNG on a fairly regular basis.

The chart at the top is an ancestry chart out to four generations from Gramps. The chart at the bottom is the same thing as generated by TNG. The index of all individuals I have posted so far can be found here.

Howard, Elizabeth

Birth Name	Howard, Elizabeth
Gender	female
Age at Death	66 years, 2 months, 21 days

Events

Event	Date	Place
Birth	1417	Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Death	1483-03-22
	Age: 66y

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date
Father	Howard, Robert	1385	1437
Mother	Mowbray, Margaret	1391	before 1459-10-18
Sister	Howard, Catherine	1410	1476-10-18
Sister	Howard, Margaret of Raithwire	1412	1472
	Howard, Elizabeth	1417	1483-03-22
Sister	Howard, Anne	1422
Sister	Howard, Jane	1422	1508-08-25
Brother	Howard, John	1430	1485-08-22